Fall of Saigon

Almost one hundred and fifty years ago on July 19 and July 20, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott met in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the future of women’s rights. Together, Stanton and Mott drafted the Declaration of Sentiments that echoed the Declaration of Independence, by stating” We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” Both Stanton and Mott had high hopes that their declaration would help women gain equality in…

“The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead” (“Poe’s Life”). Poe moved around a lot during his life and ended up meeting up with his childhood sweetheart. Poe moved to multiple cities and was trying to promote his poems. His final city was Baltimore where he was found dead. Since Edgar Allan Poe has died there has been no evidence or proof of how he died. There are many different theories on how Poe had died; my…

Edgar Allan Poe makes extensive use of literary irony in many of his short stories. The irony is defined as the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect, in his story's to make the story being told more interesting. Poe incorporates irony to make his characters more intriguing both verbally and situationally. In Poes stories, my favorite type of irony that he uses is verbal irony because it is very interesting…

The old men are in a constant struggle to find courage. During a segregated time like the 1970’s, the African American men live a prejudice society. They are in a constant struggle to find the courage to stand up against a racist society. The men slowly work up the courage to stand up against Mapes and Luke Wills Crew. The men are constantly searching for courage to stand up against a racist society. In the beginning of the novel, the men are coming to Mathu’s house to protect him against a…

Today I am gonna talk about two people with many amazing accomplishments. Who did more? Who made life better? Who was selfless? Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second of seven children born to Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony. She was enrolled in public school however once she was seven and the teacher refused to teach her long division. Her father then decided to make an educational program in her neighborhood where Susan and her…

Nicholas Emery Professor Garmann Freshman Year Seminar 110-02 October 31, 2017 Is Aschenbach a Genius Aschenbach lived his life as a very disciplined and hardworking writer who had written great works and was quite well renowned and often considered to be a literary genius. Early in the novella, Aschenbach begins to look for a way to escape his disciplined, dedicated life, and his literary fame many only dream of. Aschenbach's interaction with a weird man near a local graveyard is what leads…

No matter what goals Paul pursued, she always had a plan in mind. And despite differing opinions and outside influences, Alice Paul’s assiduous attitude eventually made the suffrage amendment attainable for the suffragists of the time. Alice Paul launched her career of suffrage with a massive suffrage parade during President Wilson’s inauguration. This grand event paved the way for rallies, lobbying, petitions, parades, election campaigns, and picketing at the White House (“Who is Alice Paul?”).…

My sense of false security and freedom at house came crushing down. On this particular day, I was devastated and distraught by the criminal underworld. Someone had just invaded my space, I felt powerless. I had seen similar violations of the law and the destruction on television and newspapers never thought I would be visited by the same fate. i had felt scared and agitated at the new concept of having to know that I wasn’t as safe as I originally thought I was. I had just dropped my father at…

that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die” (Dickens 380). Carton is about to find rebirth through the guillotine, as he drugged Darnay so as to switch places and take the fall. He feels that standing strong and dying like a man, is the way to right the life he lived shrouded. Sydney is described as feeling enlightened, and his faith in god suggests looking forward to a productive life in heaven. Darnay never welcomed…

Zitkala is a writer, she wrote different works that was pertaining to her young struggles with image that pulls between the majority culture and native American heritage. In 1884 Ztkala lived on the reservation, then later describe the days as one freedom and happiness. At the age of 8 missionaries had had recruited Yankton children taking them to the education school founded by Quaker Josiah. She attended the school. For 3 years until 1887, then later wrote the book, the school days of an…